On the Road Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of US-American Art Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Foundation, Cologne, Germany | November 23, 2018 – March 24, 2019

In Winter 2018/19 the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum will present a large survey exhibition dedicated to US American art from 1650 to 1950. The show begins with works extending from the colonial era to the masters of American Realism, and ends with examples of Abstract Expressionism. For its exhibition Once Upon a Time in America, the Wallraf is bringing to Cologne over 120 loans from the most celebrated collections and museums in the United States …Read More

Costume & Custom: Middle Eastern Threads at Olana June 17 – November 25, 2018 The 2018 exhibition will highlight the first time that the historic costumes Church collected on his 1867-68 journey to Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, Petra and other Middle Eastern cities will be seen by the public. They will be displayed within the historic rooms of Olana’s main house, whose design was inspired by Churches’ Middle Eastern travels, and Olana’s Sharp Family Gallery will present new research on the collection and its relationship to Church’s work and that of his contemporaries, including Church’s friend and guest at Olana, …Read More

On the Road Past Time: Geology in European and American Art The Frances Lehman Loeb Arts Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY | September 21 – December 9, 2018

Past Time: Geology in European and American Art looks at sketches and studies made by European and American artists from the 1770s to the 1890s who were engaged with a new, scientific emphasis on the Earth. In this arguably golden age of art and science, artists traveled and investigated the land internationally, noting Earth’s craggy features keenly in their watercolors, drawings, and oil sketches made on the spot or back in …Read More

On the Road Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire National Gallery, London | June 11 – October 7, 2018

Celebrated as one of America’s preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, immigrated to the United States in his youth, and traveled extensively throughout England and Italy as a young artist. He returned to America to create some of his most ambitious works and inspire a new generation of American painters. This exhibition examines for the first time the artist’s career in relation to his European roots and travels, establishing Cole …Read More

“Penetrable” by Jesús Rafael Soto May 2017 – November 2018

The installation of Jesús Rafael Soto’s iconic outdoor sculpture, Penetrable, currently on view at Olana State Historic Site has been extended through late 2018. Initially included as part of the exhibition OVERLOOK (May 14-Nov 5, 2017), a collaboration between The Olana Partnership and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Soto’s Penetrable will remain on view in the landscape at Olana through the fall of 2018.

The landscape may be visited daily, 8 am to sunset, and admission is free. For information about house and landscape tours, click here.

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On the Road Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT | June 2 – August 26, 2018

Artist Frederic Church was the most popular and financially successful painter in mid-19^th-century America, best known for his large paintings of wild places in North and South America, the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. But from the late 1860s until the late 1870s, many of his most important paintings represented ancient cities or buildings from his trip to the Middle East and the Mediterranean. While Church’s paintings of the New World subjects focused on nature, his Old World subjects explore human history. …Read More

On the Road Thomas Cole’s Journey: Atlantic Crossings The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY | January 30 – May 13, 2018

Celebrated as one of America’s preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, immigrated to the United States in his youth, and traveled extensively throughout England and Italy as a young artist. He returned to America to create some of his most ambitious works and inspire a new generation of American painters. This exhibition examines for the first time the artist’s career in relation to his European …Read More

On the Road Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC | February 9 – May 13, 2018

Artist Frederic Church was the most popular and financially successful painter in mid-19^th-century America, best known for his large paintings of wild places in North and South America, the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. But from the late 1860s until the late 1870s, many of his most important paintings represented ancient cities or buildings from his trip to the Middle East and the Mediterranean. While Church’s paintings of the New World subjects focused on nature, his Old World …Read More

OVERLOOK – Teresita Fernández confronts Frederic Church at Olana Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery | May 14 – November 5, 2017

A collaboration with the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

The Olana Partnership is pleased to announce the 2017 featured exhibition, “OVERLOOK” a groundbreaking installation by Artist Teresita Fernández.  Working with Guest Curator Sara Meadows, Fernández draws from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and the Olana Collection to reexamine Frederic Church and his contemporaries’ response to the cultures and landscapes experienced during their Latin American travels.  “OVERLOOK” features The Olana Partnership’s largest loan exhibition …Read More

On the Road Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage Detroit Institute of Arts | October 22, 2017 – January 15, 2018

Artist Frederic Church was the most popular and financially successful painter in mid-19^th-century America, best known for his large paintings of wild places in North and South America, the North Atlantic and the Caribbean. But from the late 1860s until the late 1870s, many of his most important paintings represented ancient cities or buildings from his trip to the Middle East and the Mediterranean. While Church’s paintings of the New World subjects focused on nature, his Old World subjects explore human …Read More